Behold, the new and improved developers wiki:
http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/WebHome
It probably still needs a little tweaking, in particular getting the
documentation links right for both projects and the intro text right for
cosmo/server.
Cheers,
Katie
Ted Leung wrote:
On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Here are my current thoughts...
- The purpose of the "engineering" wiki area is for developers: core
developers working on the project, developers who might contribute a
patch or two, developers who want to use the server for CalDAV
testing, developers who want to write desktop plugins, developers who
want to write applications that pull data from the server using Atom
or some other protocol, developers writing automated tests, etc.
- The "engineering area" home page is a starting point for any of
these people. It needs a brief description/overview of the server and
destop, and needs obvious links to this information:
* finding core developers (irc, mailing lists, etc.)
* getting source (and building, etc.)
* getting more technical info (architecture docs, protocol specs,
etc.)
* logging bugs and getting involved with testing
* finding information about sub-components or projects
I'm in agreement with the above.
- We could also add a "hacking" link for each project -- info for
getting started coding that is aimed at someone new to the project.
That assumes that a "hacking" page includes useful information not
redundant to the above.
I't unclear to me that we actually need a "hacking" link.
- We could have a "project dashboard" page for both server and
desktop, focused around release management: bug lists, links to
tinderboxes, links to planning pages for current release, etc.
I think that this is a good idea.
- The open source license needs to be clearly identified
Yes, but probably via a link.
I don't think we need an exact equivalent of the original desktop "for
developers" page -- that was a short term solution for a particular
release.
I think the main page for the twisted project is a good example of
tone and level of information: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/. (Most
people interested in twisted are developers).
Also, I wonder if "Engineering" is the wrong term -- perhaps we should
go with "Developer Area".
I strongly agree with this. Engineering is too oriented around OSAF's
organizational structure.
Ted
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